Only 11 days before the US election, news that the FBI would reopen its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server has thrown projections of her easy elevation to the US presidency into disarray. On the face of it, Clinton’s use of a private e-mail address — to send e-mails as diverse as planning her daughter’s wedding to the 2012 attack on the US embassy in Benghazi — is an obvious breach of security protocol. It has also showcased her biggest liability when she can least afford it, a bitter pill for an electorate which keeps saying it doesn’t trust Clinton. Clinton, this evidence suggests, plays by her own rules.
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